The MEL practice is to facilitate the operation of aircraft. That facility is not supposed to be abused by aircraft operators, especially those who are involved in commercial carriage of passengers.
As (Fix the jet Gerry) put it, the aircraft has to be grounded if anyone of the crew votes against applying the MEL advantage.
Since the traveling public will not be involved in those technical issues, the aircraft flying under MEL condition should not have passengers on board.
Date: 11 September 2009 commenting on http://www.delray-aviation.org/
As (Fix the jet Gerry) put it, the aircraft has to be grounded if anyone of the crew votes against applying the MEL advantage.
Since the traveling public will not be involved in those technical issues, the aircraft flying under MEL condition should not have passengers on board.
Date: 11 September 2009 commenting on http://www.delray-aviation.org/
1 comment:
Commenting on (Jeffrey Neuin):
It makes a lot of sense for the penalty to be that heavy.
The monetary penalty is supposed to be greater than the average profit obtainable from operating the aircraft during the time of abusing the MEL provision.
The idea of the big penalty is to DETER the operators from thinking of violating the applicable regulations. Thus, it will be a matter of mere insanity rather than a business risk if the operators deliberately violate the rules.
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